A NEW TYPE OF PROSTHETIC IS GIVING PARTIAL FINGER AMPUTEES MORE INDEPENDENCE. — SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - In just 10 minutes, life went from normal to forever changed for Allyson Watson. “The sheriff came to ...

Director General of the Fund for Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities Vitaliy Muzychenko says that over 95% of ...

New technological advancements with functional prosthetic hands raise graphene nanotubes' potential in allowing them to interact with electronic touchscreens. Young scientists from Motorica, a biomed ...

(ABC) – Prosthetic limbs aren’t just for people. They can be for elephants, too. Mosha the elephant, a permanent resident of the hospital run by the Friends of the Asian Elephant foundation in ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Army News Service, Feb. 1, 2012) -- A robotic arm, dubbed "Luke," after the Jedi with the mechanical hand, served as the centerpiece for a Jan. 31 discussion here regarding ...

Director General of the Fund for Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities Vitaliy Muzychenko says that in today's conditions a very big challenge is a significant share of primary prosthetics.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (WPVI) -- New technology is helping a farmer in Iowa - not with his fields, but with getting around. "The leg is actually controlled by my cell phone. I get a text message when my ...

2-year-old Sol had his arm amputated when he was 10 days old. When his father, Ben Ryan, found out his newborn son couldn’t get a functional prosthetic until he was three, he started Ambionics to ...

Ashraf Mizo is a 21-year-old Sudanese engineering student developing simplified, inexpensive prosthetics through a combination of 3-D printing technology and machine learning to address the pressing ...

A 3D-printed prosthetic hand has been developed by a physics major studying at Ithaca College — and it cost him only about $15 for parts. The prosthetic developed by Ryan Bouricius is relatively ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Some high school students in Manhattan are using their math lessons to lend a literal helping hand. They've created and built a prosthetic using a 3-D printer. It's not your ...